Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

"Earthlings" is a film about animal abuse narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. I've never watched it, but heard it talked about on a vegan podcast. It's supposed to be so intense, it turns people into vegans (Ellen DeGeneres for one.) Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Farm animals used for food and fiber or for food and fiber research are not regulated under the AWA.”.Unlike Unlike domestic animals, there are minimal organizations or lobbyists to defend these animals, therefore leaving public opinion to be shaped only by the insincere comments of the cattle industry.

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Animal Person

APRIL 22, 2009

The ads I see today have nothing to do with animal cruelty--the opposite is true. I may have just gotten myself fired from Animal Rights Zone. Is this like eating at a non-vegan restaurant, where by doing so you support animal use and abuse? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

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Fur Animal Cruelty Psychology Rabbits 100

Animal Person

MARCH 20, 2010

When I started thinking about trying to get the association to cancel the pony rides and petting zoo (which are often part of one business as a quick Google search of " traveling petting zoo " will demonstrate), my several-year vegan husband said, "What's the use? It's not like these people care about animals. What would you do?

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Zoos Pets Ponies Cruelty 100

Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

I don't need to "remind myself" of how bad it is to bolster my commitment to veganism. I spend plenty of time doing nonprofit work that is unrelated to animals and also doing for-profit work that is unrelated to animals. In other words, I don't immerse myself in animal cruelty. I know it's out there.

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Tnr Vegan Suffering Animal Cruelty 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

It is certainly likely that a similar phenomenon would occur if vegan vegetarianism became a widespread movement in the U.S. One suspects that the SPCA and the American Humane Society have done more to stop cruelty to animals than vegetarians ever could. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. causing a decline in U.S.

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